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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Sudan

Markus Böckenförde

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
December 2010

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2022. All Rights Reserved.date: 02 July 2022

Subject(s):
Boundaries — Sovereignty — Internally displaced persons — Armed conflict — Crimes against humanity — War crimes

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 The Republic of Sudan (‘Sudan’) is not only the largest country in Africa, with a territory covering about 2.5 million km2, it also has one of the most heterogeneous societies, with approximately 600 different indigenous groups speaking over 100 different languages. Sudan borders the Red Sea in the north-east, as well as nine countries, namely the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo, Democratic Republic of the), Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, and Uganda.2 From a perspective of international law, six aspects of the...
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